However, after its spread, its ideas were changed to fit the already present belief systems of the people living there. First, Islam, like many other religions, spread through trade. Trading was the first form of interactions between different civilizations and allowed not only goods to travel from place to place, but
Impact of Islam The impact of Islam in most cases was positive for the growth of these civilizations. In India Islam enriched the culture and learning. In Africa Islam revealed the power, the religion, and its commercial and sometimes military attributes. Islam arrived the Indian and African regions in the early centuries. Political changes were increased, new religious, economic, and political patterns were constructed by the Islamic surge, but there was still great diversity.
Islam and Christianity Sub-Saharan Africa North Africa was the epicenter for the spread of Christianity and Islam on the African continent. The people of North Africa, by force, free will, or trade networks, came to accept and disseminate each religion to the masses. Although Christianity and Islam spread equally through Egypt, Nubia, and to the Western areas around Numidia, it is apparent that Islam had a far greater and lasting impact than Christianity. Christianity came to North Africa by way of missionaries to Egypt early in the first century. It is believed that these Christian missionaries came to Alexandria to spread the gospel among the Jewish community.
In contrast, the development of the Saharan Caravan trade route was quite different to the Silk Road’s development throughout time. The development mainly was dependent on the rise of the empire of Ghana. The Mediterranean economies where short of gold and so they could supply salt to other countries those were short of it. The Saharan Caravan trade route also developed because of the slave trade. This made a huge contribution to the development because a large number of Africans were sent to the north, to serve as slaves or domestic workers.
African exports consisted primarily of gold, ivory, and pepper. However, over 175,000 slaves were also taken to Europe and the Americas during this period. In 1600, with the involvement of the Dutch and English, the magnitude of the slave trade grew exponentially. From the time of their arrival on the shores of Sierra Leone in 1460, and until their gradual decline as leaders in world exploration in the sixteenth century, the Portuguese had an ambiguous relationship with their African trading partners. Disembarking at cities that were equally large, complex, and technologically advanced as Lisbon at the time, the Portuguese actually experienced far less culture shock than we might
Sub-Saharan Africa had much longer exposure to Islamic culture influences than to European cultural influences. Scholars and merchants learned to use the Arabic language to communicate with visiting North Africans and to read the Quran. Islamic beliefs and practices as well as Islamic legal and administrative systems were prominent in African trading cities on the southern edge of the Saharan and on the Swahili coast. During the three and a half centuries of contact between Europe and Africa before 1800, Africans yielded minimal territory to Europeans. Local African kings scrutinized the European trading posts that they permitted along the Gold and Slave Coasts and collected profitable rents and fees from these traders and merchants.
Their agricultural strength was another component that added to the empire’s power. Trade was also important in the Muslim world. The Islamic people traded across the silk roads, linking once again China and the Mediterranean basin. Agricultural production would increase the amount of cities in the Arabs making refined business practices a necessity. This would cause the establishment of banks and the sakk, a forerunner of checks.
Another thing that Africa has is a lot of Plantonium and Gold, this is what attracted the Europeans in the first place. The Europeans came because of Mansa Musa going to Egypt and throwing gold to the people on the streets, and when the Europeans heard of this they right away wanted to go to Africa. These facts are supported in the article about Mansa Musa that we read earlier this year. Most of the geography in Africa has both a positive and negative affect on it’s development, but I would like to point out all of the positive things. In Africa there is a lot of Plantonuim, this Plantonuim is eighty percent of the worlds Plantonuim, the presented fact came off of Mr. Nizar Hadeli.
This enabled trade that region to occur faster than ever before. Another change in the Indian Ocean’s commerce came through new strains of cereals and maize found in the America’s, which became a new commodity for trade. Along with grains came another new commodity for trade: humans. During 1000-1750 AD, the Fatimid Dynasty, a Muslim government in Egypt, began to slowly take over surrounding regions in Africa. After permeating African society, Muslim merchants began capturing slaves and selling them to buyers in Arabia, where slaves were prized as status symbols.
The migrations that we know it in Islam called Hijrat. Hijrat became a nice way to create a nice picture in most of the countries. In addition, Islam did migrations in South Africa, so the story of Islam began in South Africa with this migration. Profit Mohamed came to Africa in the first time in a country called Ethiopia with the king Nagashi. Nagashi king welcomed the Muslims when they came into his country.